US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on May 26 for "Memory device performing pruning, method of operating the same, and electronic device performing pruning" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,575, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Memory device performing pruning, method of operating the same, and electronic device performing pruning" was invented by Ho-Youn Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jong-Yoon Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a memory device which is configured to communicate with a host device, and which includes a memory cell array and a processing-in-memory (PIM) chip, including loading activation data and weight data from the memory cell array, by the PIM chip; generating pruned activation data by performing a f...